Kakadu dunnart

Sminthopsis bindi

Blamed on cats

IUCN Status: Near Threatened

EPBC Threat Rating: High/Very High

IUCN Claim: “Predation by feral cats may also be a threat.’”

Studies in support

Cats hunt Kakadu dunnarts (Stokeld et al. 2016).

Studies not in support

No studies

Is the threat claim evidence-based?

There are no studies linking cats to Kakadu dunnarts.

Evidence linking Sminthopsis bindi to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Sminthopsis bindi and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Sminthopsis bindi, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance.
Evidence linking Sminthopsis bindi to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Sminthopsis bindi and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Sminthopsis bindi, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance.

References

Stokeld, Danielle, et al. “Experimental evaluation of the role of feral cat predation in the decline of small mammals in Kakadu National Park.” NT Department of Land Resource Management, Berrimah (2016).

Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission